Exodus 12:21

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Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.

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  • Exod 12:3 : 3 Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:
  • Mark 14:12-16 : 12 And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal? 13 And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him; 14 And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples? 15 And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us. 16 And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.
  • Luke 22:7-9 : 7 And the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb is put to death. 8 And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it. 9 And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready? 10 And he said to them, When you go into the town you will see a man coming to you with a vessel of water; go after him into the house into which he goes. 11 And say to the master of the house, The Master says, Where is the guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples? 12 And he will take you up to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready. 13 And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.
  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.
  • Exod 3:16 : 16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;
  • Exod 12:11 : 11 And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.
  • Exod 17:5 : 5 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.
  • Exod 19:7 : 7 And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.
  • Num 9:2-5 : 2 Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law. 4 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover. 5 So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
  • Num 11:16 : 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.
  • Josh 5:10 : 10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.
  • 2 Kgs 23:21 : 21 And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.
  • 2 Chr 30:15-17 : 15 Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord. 16 And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites. 17 For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 35:5-6 : 5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites. 6 And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.
  • Ezra 6:20 : 20 For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.
  • Matt 26:17-19 : 17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal? 18 And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.

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  • Exod 12:1-8
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    1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

    2Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.

    3Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:

    4And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.

    5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

    6Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

    7Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.

    8And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
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    6And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.

  • Exod 12:22-23
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    22And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.

    23For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction.

  • Num 9:2-5
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    79%

    2Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.

    3In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.

    4And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.

    5So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

  • Exod 12:26-29
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    26And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

    27Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.

    28And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.

    29And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.

  • Exod 12:10-14
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    10Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire.

    11And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.

    12For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.

    13And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt.

    14And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

  • Luke 22:7-8
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    7And the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb is put to death.

    8And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.

  • Exod 12:42-43
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    42It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.

    43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it:

  • Ezek 45:21
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    21In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.

  • Num 9:11-12
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    11In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

    12Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

  • Exod 12:20
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    20Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

  • Deut 16:1-2
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    1Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night.

    2The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name.

  • Lev 23:5
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    5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

  • Luke 22:1
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    1Now the feast of unleavened bread was near, which is called the Passover.

  • 2 Kgs 23:21
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    21And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

  • Num 28:16
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    16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

  • Exod 12:47
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    47All Israel is to keep the feast.

  • Mark 14:12
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    12And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

  • 2 Chr 35:11
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    11And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

  • Exod 12:18
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    18In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

  • Heb 11:28
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    28By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.

  • Deut 16:5-6
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    5The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you:

    6But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.

  • Exod 19:7
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    7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • Lev 8:19
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    19And he put it to death; and Moses put some of the blood on and round the altar.

  • Num 9:9
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    9And the Lord said to Moses,